The Start of Poetry Terms ;)

IMAGERY

 

DEFINITION: The use of senses in descriptive language to allow the reader/audience to have a visual.

EXAMPLE: The winter evening settles down

                       With smell of steaks in passageways.

SIGNIFICANCE: With the usage of descriptive language, we can get our audience to visualize the poem in their mind without  further explanation.

STANZA

DEFINITION: Multiple paragraphs of lines which creates a poem

EXAMPLE:   there are other ways        some make another ocean

many ways in fact                                     inside their cupped hands

to create worlds,
                                                              when i talk to myself

some do it in hiding                                   when everyone else leaves

the world is a corner
a nook of few clutters                                for their own homes

                                                              on delicate whispers of the heart

SIGNIFICANCE: Stanzas is like the divider of the topics since with it, it makes the reading less complicated.

METAPHOR:

DEFINITION: It's a figure of speech which compares two ideas WITHOUT using "as or like"

EXAMPLE: Life is one long scary roller coaster.

SIGNIFICANCE: Makes reading poems interesting and it uses objects/ideas in a way that we often don't see it as. 

EXTENDED METAPHOR 

DEFINITION: A metaphor that continues further into the next coming lines of the poem.

EXAMPLE: All that inhabit this great earth,

                      Whatever be their rank or worth,

                      Are kindred and allied by birth,

                      And made of the same clay.

SIGNIFICANCE: Just like metaphors, it's interesting to read, but it may get confusing. The more you read extended metaphors, you can see how much topics can be compared to each other in many sentences. 

SIMILE

 

DEFINITION: A figure of speech which compares two things that may be similar or dissimilar by using "like or as"

EXAMPLE: The book was so thick that it was as heavy as a motorbike.

SIGNIFICANCE: With the use of similes, it makes it very simple to understand more than metaphors mostly for young children.

INTERPRETATION

DEFINITION: The explanation to the meaning of something or a symbol of it

EXAMPLE:

SIGNIFICANCE: Interpretation is important because words can be easily understood mostly when descriptive than pictures since in each pictures, it can get people to think different opinions. 

TONE

DEFINITION: The quality of something that depends on pitch, strength, etc.

EXAMPLE: 

SIGNIFICANCE: Tones is important in poems, music, and in other things because without it, it'll sound dull and uninteresting.